The sun of a prince's good graces resembles that in the skies in that it shines most kindly upon the blackest people.

A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.

To enlist the support of the people and of parliament, you only have to propose a profitable villainy.

Feeling and thinking are actually the blind man who carries the lame.

Dilettantes appreciate the work, professors the master at the same time.

The manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena externally.

The real genres: good and bad.